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小词详解 | apathy
apathy 英 [ˈæpəθi] 美 [ˈæpəθi]
But consumer apathy has forced firms to rethink how they might woo customers.
但是,消费者的冷淡已经迫使企业重新思考该如何吸引客户。
——《经济学人》The tip-off is Beard, who’s endowed by his creator with precisely the vices — apathy, slothfulness, gluttony and hypocrisy — that afflict the society the book condemns, threatening to cook the human race in the heat-trapping gases released by its own arrogance.
这一点是通过比尔德暴露出来的,他的创造者在他身上添加的邪恶元素——冷漠、倦怠、贪吃、虚伪——准确地戳到了本书所控诉的这个社会的痛处,他威胁要用人类的狂妄所产生的温室气体把人类自己烤熟。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 缺乏兴趣、热情或关心
与过去形成鲜明对比的是,选民普遍态度冷淡。
In stark contrast to the past, there is widespread apathy among the electorate.
她是教书的材料。连最不感兴趣的学生都开始坐直了听讲。
She has a vocation for teaching. Even the most apathetic students are beginning to sit up and listen.疾病使该迎宾员冷漠,不愿见人。因此她生病后便给解除了许多责任。
The illness made the usher apathetic and unwilling to meet people. Therefore, after her illness she was divested of much of her responsibility.
Their convict uniforms were dirty and foul with sweat, shackles clanked between their ankles when they moved tiredly, and there was an air of apathy and despair about them.
他们穿的囚服,因为有汗,又脏又臭。他们拖着疲倦的脚步走动时,脚镣发出哗啦哗的响声。这几个人都带着一种消沉、绝望的眼神。
indifference: lack of interest, concern, or sympathy passivity: acceptance of what happens, without active response or resistance unconcern: a lack of worry or interest, especially when surprising or callous